snapsack
English
Etymology
Compare German Schnappsack and similar Northern Sami word.
Noun
snapsack (plural snapsacks)
- (archaic) A knapsack.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- a soldier who had filled his snapsack
References
- “snapsack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.